Quaker Socialists will march on May 1st…!

by Laurence Hall.

Quakers are marching on Mayday 2023

The Quaker Socialist Society is organising a Quaker section of the traditional May Day march through the streets of central London, Monday 1st May. This is to show publicly that we as Quaker Socialists stand in solidarity with the millions of trade unionists, especially those in public service, who are now in the face of soaring inflation protesting against 13 years of cuts in pay and working conditions. By doing so they are also protesting against the inhuman social priorities and lamentable ethical values that lie behind such cuts. They are striving in fact to bring their workplaces, and the wider world, closer to the fundamental Quaker values of equality and human dignity we hold so dear. 

We will assemble at Clerkenwell Green, London EC1, at 12.30 under the Quaker Socialist Society banner. We will then march to Trafalgar Square where – whether they have marched or not – Friends will come together at around 2pm on the steps of St Martin’s Church for the rally.  Afterwards we will have some drinks and some chat in Westminster Meeting House, which is in nearby St Martin’s Lane.